When companies first launch, they’re often best at focusing in on their mission, on what they do best or – ideally – on the single biggest market problem they can address. Point is, they focus. And while this is often thanks to a strong leader, it just as often can be the sheer force of [...]
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Telecom may be old; but no boring.
We all go through phases of a career where a little boredom or a sense of routine kicks in, especially those who stay in the same industry for decades at a time. So when I say that lately I was feeling a little of this myself, I do so with no shame. This year marks plural [...]
Buffett was Right – It’s a Weighing Machine
Image via Wikipedia As I prepare for next week’s Cloud Communications Summit and Startup Camp at IT Expo, I’ve been reflecting over the past year. Even though it’s been a nasty one for the average Joe, the economy as a whole has done pretty well (all considered), and our own little niche (cloud communications) seems [...]
RingRevenue Ring$ in the Holidays.
Image via CrunchBase Just in time for the holidays, RingRevenue has completed its next round of financing. A trailblazer in enabling advertisers to profitably integrate phone calls into their processes, today’s news suggests strongly the company has indeed proved out their model. This morning’s announcement reads: Marketing company RingRevenue has rased $4 million in venture capital financing, bringing [...]
Voice M&A Gets Going: Cbeyond, Oracle and others jump in.
Over the last years, few conversations have gone by without someone pondering when the ‘roll-up’ would inevitably start in the hosted voice space. But in 2009, while many may have poked around, the opportunities were more so to pick off distressed properties than to invest in real scale or product line expansion. People were nervous, [...]
Cloud-Comm Channels for a Cloud-Comm World?
Image via Wikipedia As a recent convert to Gmail (yes, I know I’m late on that one), I decided to have a peak at what if anything goes on inside Buzz. The first post I came across from was from industry friend Peter Radizeski, who made an observation about the growing popularity of the Hosted IVR [...]
iPad – A Month Later
I’ve had my iPad now for about a month or so and literally, it goes everywhere with me, while my iPhone and iPod touch stay home. I was never a big fan of the call quality of the iPhone here in the USA. Too many dropped calls, and lousy, I mean lousy battery life. I [...]
T-Mobile Now Gets WiFi Voice
Image via Wikipedia T-Mobile is finally getting WiFi Voice and candidly, I’m saddened. Not because they are now on the Mobile VoIP bandwagon, but because it has taken them so long to voice their support for it. If there was one mobile operator I would have thought would have embraced it, it was them. You [...]
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Skype: Lost focus or an exit-play after all?
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Mobile Video Calls Are Not A Real Need. Period.
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Google Targets Skype
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Will there be a Voice Conferencing 2.0?
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Microsoft Contacts Next of Kin
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Rich Calling For SMBs Now Possible
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Skype: Lost focus or an exit-play after all?
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Is the Cloud Safe?
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Lessons in Phone History.
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Telecom may be old; but no boring.
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Will video go the way of voice mail?
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Eugene Liu: Happy belated birthday, Larry!!! (Add "1 blog c...
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yossi.v: "Calls to Skype users are free, and to most other ...
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Mathieu: Google has Android and Voice come pre-install on 2...
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Danielle Morrill: Go Twilio developer community, go!...
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Chema: Yes, it is difficult for people to find value in p...
